Safety demonstrations by cabin crew on airplanes before take-off are done so routinely all of us passengers hardly even care for what those flight attendants are saying or doing. Passengers shut their eyes to take a nap, chat, browse the in-flight magazine or crackle some home-cooked munchies in their mouths while the cabin crew is instructing them on how to save their life in case of emergency on the plane. Who is to blame – the passengers or the airlines? Well, obviously the airlines, but the airlines will say they are just following the standards set by the national aviation authorities. And the national aviation authorities – DGCA, the Director General of Civil Aviation, in case of India – would say this is the procedure approved by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the specialized agency of the United Nations headquartered in Montreal that, according to its charter, “codifies the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth.”
You can’t blame the passengers at all. The flight attendants do it like a routine, like the motions they have to go through before the flight takes off and they rush to the food and beverages drawers and roll the trolleys down the aisle. There are times when the flight is hard on time and is doing both the things at the same time, preparing to take off and shooting out the safety instructions; the plane starts moving for the take-off even before the attendants have finished demonstrating. Sometimes the attendants rush through very quickly; sometimes their voices, sometimes accents are not clear.
The larger airplanes equipped with in-flight entertainment now make safety demonstrations through video on screens fitted in the backs of seats. It is clear to see that the device of replacing live demonstrations by flight attendants with recorded videos is done with the intention of saving cost on the staff, rather than saving the lives of passengers, because the video does not make it better and easier for the passengers to grasp the instructions.
08/02/16 Navhind Times
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You can’t blame the passengers at all. The flight attendants do it like a routine, like the motions they have to go through before the flight takes off and they rush to the food and beverages drawers and roll the trolleys down the aisle. There are times when the flight is hard on time and is doing both the things at the same time, preparing to take off and shooting out the safety instructions; the plane starts moving for the take-off even before the attendants have finished demonstrating. Sometimes the attendants rush through very quickly; sometimes their voices, sometimes accents are not clear.
The larger airplanes equipped with in-flight entertainment now make safety demonstrations through video on screens fitted in the backs of seats. It is clear to see that the device of replacing live demonstrations by flight attendants with recorded videos is done with the intention of saving cost on the staff, rather than saving the lives of passengers, because the video does not make it better and easier for the passengers to grasp the instructions.
08/02/16 Navhind Times
